The Sweordora were an Anglian tribe who, according to the

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lived in the vicinity of Sword Point, Whittlesey Mere,

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(formerly Huntingdonshire), probably in the 6th Century.D. P. Kirby, "The earliest English Kings", (second edition, 2001), Routledge Their

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is a clear

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of the ''Suiones'' (also known as ''Swēon'') Adam (1948). Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesi pontificum, Codex havniensis. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger. the

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Peoples of Anglo-Saxon Mercia {{England-hist-stub